Must have been a hell of a wedding. Here's another shameless example of exploitative promotion. You never see guys in ripped clothing lying unconscious in some big ape's arms do you? Here's the pressbook.
Here's more stuff in the closet to go ape over:
Amazing how all these jungle guys fighting lions, tigers, and assorted beasts never seem to get scratched, mauled, or serious f'd up. Hell, the urban jungle's apparently a lot worse if you go by these movies.
Here's another colorful Superman Mexican lobby card for the television series. I like this one because the inset scene matches the action illustration at the bottom right.
More Superman Stuff in the Closet:
Superman and the Jungle Devil Mexican Lobby Card
Adventures of Superman Mexican Lobby Card
Genuine Superman Outfit Advertisement (Screen Magazine, 1955)
Santo squares off against the Headhunters in this Mexican lobby card from 1971.
These are the kinds of Mexican lobby cards I dream about. Frightening image of Bela Lugosi done in spook show luridness, matched with a gasping woman in the inset scene, and colors that scream "creepy" out loud. I normally don't collect lobbies that are badly torn, but this one is rare and the missing piece doesn't ruin the impact. I hope you find it as compelling as I do. This one is for Invisible Ghost (1941). And note that Polly Ann Young's name is misspelled.
More Bela:
Here's an interesting one: this Mexican lobby card for Tarzan and the She-Devil, Tarzan Y La Diablesa, is a bit confusing. This is a beautiful lobby highlighting Johnny Weissmuller as Tarzan, but Lex Barker played Tarzan in the 1953 movie. Oops.
The East Side Kids mix it up with Bela Lugosi in Ghosts on the Loose. A salary dispute with Leo Gorcey, the "brains" of the group, would lead to The Bowery Boys movies beginning in 1945.
More Stuff in the Closet:
This Mexican lobby card for El Misterio Del Latigo Negro is gorgeous and a fine example of how much talent-driven composition Mexican lobbies can achieve.
The Deadly Wrestling Hold, La Llave Mortal, is promoted in a Mexican lobby card that uses two inset fight scenes for half of the lobby and illustration for the other half.
I'm not sure who the artist is here, for this The Invisible Terror Mexican lobby card, but this minimalist illustration always catches my eye.
Beautiful blend of colors, illustration, and inset scene make this Mexican lobby card for Aventuras Del Latigo Negro a sophisticated promotional piece. (See another great Latigo Negro lobby here.)
Beast of a movie is more like it. Curucu, Beast of the Amazon is an awful mess of editing, direction (Curt Siodmak), and acting, which make this one a terror to watch. Monster is laughable. From IMDb: "Director Curt Siodmak said of this film, "I shot it down there [in Brazil], in the jungles. I never recovered, physically." Neither did the audience.
